Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1898 — GREAT INCREASE OF EXPORTS. [ARTICLE]

GREAT INCREASE OF EXPORTS.

Fiscal Year 1808 Helps Farmer More than Any Previous Cue. The farmers of the United States are drawing upon other parts of the world for more money in the fiscal year which ends with this month than in any preceding year in the history of the country. Even the high-water mark of 1892, when our exi>orts of agricultural products amounted to $799,328,232, will be surpassed by the record of the year which closes w’ith this month. The preliminary reports es May exportations which have neached the bureau of statistics made it quite apparent that the agricultural exports of the year Will be considerably in excess of SBOO,000,000, the total for the year being likely to reach Compared with the last fiscal year, the increase in exports of agricultural products will be fully $150,000,000. In breadstuffs alone the exports of the year will amount to nearly $1,000,000 for each business day, and will be more than SIOO,000,000 in excess of last year’s exports. Of wheat the value of the exports for 1898 will be more than double those of 1897, while the increase in flour will be nearly 50 per cent, and of corn nearly 50 per cent iu values Provisions—in which tergj are Included beef and hog and dairy products—show aldo a marked increase, die total* exports of provisions for the year being likely to reach $160,000,000 In value. Should it happen the international bandwagon plays *Yankee Doodle" and “God Save the Queen” in unison the rest of the world may as well face the music.—Philadelphia Times. , , .